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With the bio-box set behind the Upper Circle the In the following months the auditorium was re-
extreme rake required a tilted screen. To ensure painted pale green, white and terra cotta. One
that patrons in the back rows of the stalls would long-overdue improvement was a new access
see the full screen, it was set to almost touch the to the Upper Circle from the Dress Circle
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Paramount Film Service Pty Ltd inherited
a theatre which seated 1,350 patrons. They
reduced its capacity to 1,273 seats. Of the three
surviving twin-balcony cinemas the Metro
Bourke Street was the largest (1,387), the
Kings was second, and the Athenaeum was the
smallest (997).

New verandah.

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